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Charles Bronson
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Charles Bronson was an American film and television actor. He starred in such as Once Upon a Time in the West, The Magnificent Seven, The Dirty Dozen, The Great Escape, Rider on the Rain, The Mechanic. He was often cast in the role of an officer, gunfighter. He had long collaborations with film directors Michael Winner and J. Lee Thompson, in 1965, he was featured as Major Wolenski in Battle of the Bulge. His father was a Lithuanian immigrant and his mother was an American of Lithuanian descent and his father, Valteris P. Bučinskis, hailed from the town of Druskininkai. Bronsons mother, Mary Valinsky, whose parents were from Lithuania, was born in the mining town of Tamaqua. He learned to speak English when he was a teenager, before that, Bronson was the first member of his family to graduate from high school. When Bronson was 10 years old, his father died, Young Charles went to work in the coal mines, first in the mining office and then in the mine. He later said he earned one dollar for each ton of coal that he mined and he worked in the mine until he entered military service during World War II. His family was so poor that at one time, he said and he flew 25 missions and received a Purple Heart for wounds received in battle. After the end of World War II, Bronson worked at odd jobs until joining a theatrical group in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He later shared an apartment in New York City with Jack Klugman while both were aspiring to play on the stage, in 1950, he married and moved to Hollywood, where he enrolled in acting classes and began to find small roles. Bronsons first film role — an uncredited one — was as a sailor in Youre in the Navy Now in 1951, other early screen appearances were in Pat and Mike, Miss Sadie Thompson and House of Wax. In 1952, Bronson boxed in a ring with Roy Rogers in Rogers show Knockout and he appeared on an episode of The Red Skelton Show as a boxer in a skit with Skelton playing Cauliflower McPugg. He also had a part credited as Charles Buchinsky in a western named Riding Shotgun, in 1954, Bronson made a strong impact in Drum Beat as a murderous Modoc warrior, Captain Jack, who relishes wearing the tunics of soldiers he has killed. In 1957, Bronson was cast in the Western series Colt.45 as an outlaw named Danny Arnold in the episode Young Gun. He scored the lead in his own ABCs detective series Man with a Camera, in which he portrayed Mike Kovac, Bronson starred alongside Elizabeth Montgomery in a Twilight Zone episode. He appeared in five episodes of Richard Boones Have Gun – Will Travel, in 1958, he was cast in his first lead film role in Roger Cormans Machine-Gun Kelly, followed by the lead role in the World War II film When Hell Broke Loose later the same year

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Demetrius Augustine Gallitzin
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Prince Demetrius Augustine Gallitzin was an emigre Russian aristocrat and Roman Catholic priest known as The Apostle of the Alleghenies. Since 2005, he has been under consideration for canonization by the Catholic Church. His current title is Servant of God, Prince Dimitri Dmitrievich Gallitzin was born into a world of inherited privilege December 22,1770 at The Hague. His father, Prince Dimitri Alexeievich, the Russian ambassador to the Netherlands, was a friend of Voltaire. His mother was the Prussian Countess Adelheid Amalie von Schmettau, the daughter of Field Marshall Samuel von Schmettau. He was raised as a member of the Russian Orthodox Church, although his father. As was fashionable at the time, the language of the household was French, in his youth his most constant companion was William Frederick, son of William V, then reigning Stadtholder of the Netherlands. This friendship continued even after William became King of the Netherlands, each summer, his mother would take Dimitri and his sister travelling to the principal cities of Germany, explaining to them important geographical or historical features. Demetri was by nature, rather reserved and timid and his sister made friends more readily, but Demetri kept them longer. After his mothers return to Catholicism in 1786, he was influenced by her circle of intellectuals, priests. At the age of 17, Prince Dimitri was formally received into the Roman Catholic church. To please his mother, whose birth, and marriage, occurred on 28 August, the feast of Saint Augustine, he assumed at confirmation that name, and thereafter wrote his name Demetrius Augustine. A cousin, Elizabeth Gallitzin, would eventually convert and join the Society of the Sacred Heart. As was the custom among young aristocrats at the time, he set out to complete his education by travel. As the French Revolution had made European tours unsafe, his parents resolved that he should spend two years in traveling through America, the West Indies, and other foreign lands. To avoid the inconvenience and expense of travelling as a Russian prince and this name then became Schmet or Smith, and he was known as Augustine Smith for many years after. Not long after his arrival, he interested in the needs of the Church in the United States. To the shock and horror of his father, Prince Dimitri decided to join the priesthood, the Ambassador subsequently persuaded Catherine the Great to award his son a commission in one of the Palace Guards Regiments, and formally summoned him to active duty in St. Petersburg

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Robert Peary
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Robert Edwin Peary Sr. was an American explorer who claimed to have reached the geographic North Pole with his expedition on April 6,1909. Pearys claim was widely credited for most of the 20th century, rather than the claim by Frederick Cook. Both claims were debated in newspapers until 1913. Based on an evaluation of Pearys records, British polar explorer Wally Herbert concluded in a 1989 book that Peary did not reach the pole and his conclusions have been widely accepted but are in turn disputed by other authorities. Altogether Peary made eight Arctic trips, his last two expeditions were solely for the purpose of trying to reach the North Pole, Robert Edwin Peary was born on May 6,1856, in Cresson, Pennsylvania, to Charles N. and Mary P. Peary. After his father Charles Peary died in 1859, Pearys mother took the boy with her and settled in Portland, after growing up in Portland, Peary attended Bowdoin College, some 36 miles to the north. He was a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon and Phi Beta Kappa fraternities while at college and he graduated in 1877 with a civil engineering degree. After college, Peary worked as a draftsman making technical drawings in Washington, DC, at the US Coast and he joined the United States Navy and on October 26,1881, was commissioned as a civil engineer, with the relative rank of lieutenant. From 1884 to 1885 he was assistant engineer on the surveys for the Nicaragua Canal, as reflected in a diary entry he made in 1885, during his time in the Navy, he resolved to be the first man to reach the North Pole. In April 1886 he wrote a paper for the National Academy of Sciences proposing two methods for crossing Greenlands ice cap, one was to start from the west coast and trek about 400 miles to the east coast. Peary was promoted to the rank of lieutenant commander on January 5,1901, Peary made his first expedition to the Arctic in 1886, intending to cross Greenland by dog sled, taking the first of his own suggested paths. He was given six months leave from the Navy, and he received $500 from his mother to book passage north and he sailed on a whaler to Greenland, arriving in Godhavn on June 6,1886. Peary wanted to make a solo trek but a young Danish official named Christian Maigaard convinced him he would die if he went out alone, Maigaard and Peary set off together and traveled nearly 100 miles due east before turning back because they were short on food. This was the second-farthest penetration of Greenlands ice sheet at that date, Peary returned home knowing more of what was required for long-distance ice trekking. Back in Washington attending with the US Navy, Peary was ordered in November 1887 to survey routes for a proposed Nicaragua Canal. To complete his tropical outfit he needed a sun hat, so he went to a clothing store. There he met 21-year-old Matthew Henson, a man working as a sales clerk. Learning that Henson had six years of seagoing experience as a cabin boy, on assignment in the jungles of Nicaragua, Peary told Henson of his dream of Arctic exploration

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Edgar Cortright
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Edgar Maurice Cortright was a scientist and engineer, and senior official at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in the United States. Cortright was born on July 29,1923 in Hastings, Pennsylvania and his family moved to the Philadelphia area where he attended high school. He earned a B. S. followed by an M. S. in aeronautical engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1947 and 1949, at RPI, he was roommates with George Low. He attended the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics Nuclear Engineering School in 1957, much later, in 1975, he got a Doctor of Engineering degree from Rensselaer. Cortright gained membership to the Stephen Van Rensselaer Society of Patroons and his parents were Janet Pearsall Cortright and Edgar Maurice Cortright, Sr. He had a sister, Janet, who died before him, and he married Beverly Jane Hotaling in 1945 and she died in 2012. Their children were Susan and David, and Cortright had three grandsons at the time of his death, Cortright enlisted in the United States Navy in September 1941 where he was a Lieutenant. He went on to work at the Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory at NACA, in Cleveland, there, he held the positions of Aeronautical Research Scientist, Head of Small Supersonic Tunnels Section, and Chief, Eight-by-Six-Foot Supersonic Wind Tunnel Branch. He joined the newly formed NASA agency as a member in 1958. He was Director of the Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia from 1968-1975, the Board reported its findings to NASA in June 1970. Cortright left NASA to become Corporate Vice President and Technical Director at Owens Illinois Corporation from 1975-1979 and he also held the positions of Senior Vice President for Science and Engineering and President at Lockheed-California Company in Los Angeles, California. He died from a stroke in Palm City, Florida, on May 4,2014, NASA Biographical Data Sheet, Edgar Maurice Cortright Oral History Transcript, Edgar M. Cortright Lengthy interview of Cortright. Spaceflight Revolution, NASA Langley Research Center From Sputnik to Apollo See Chapter 12, compiled and Edited by Edgar M. Cortright,1968. Apollo Expeditions to the Moon Edited by Edgar M. Cortright,1975

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Cambria County, Pennsylvania
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Cambria County is a county located in the U. S. state of Pennsylvania. As of the 2010 census, the population was 143,679, the county was created on March 26,1804, from parts of Bedford, Huntingdon, and Somerset Counties and later organized in 1807. It was named for the nation of Wales, which in Latin is known as Cambria, Cambria County comprises the Johnstown, PA Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the Johnstown-Somerset, PA Combined Statistical Area. According to the U. S. Census Bureau, the county has an area of 694 square miles. The population density was 222 people per square mile, there were 65,796 housing units at an average density of 96 per square mile. The racial makeup of the county was 95. 80% White,2. 83% Black or African American,0. 09% Native American,0. 38% Asian,0. 02% Pacific Islander,0. 25% from other races, and 0. 64% from two or more races. 0. 89% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race. 27. 7% were of German,10. 2% Irish,10. 1% Italian,10. 0% Polish,6. 5% Slovak,6. 2% American and 5. 6% English ancestry according to Census 2000. 29. 80% of all households were made up of individuals and 15. 60% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older, the average household size was 2.38 and the average family size was 2.96. In the county, the population was out with 21. 00% under the age of 18,9. 00% from 18 to 24,26. 20% from 25 to 44,24. 10% from 45 to 64. The median age was 41 years, for every 100 females there were 94.20 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 91.30 males, as of November 2008, there are 92,456 registered voters in Cambria County. Cambria County is one of Pennsylvanias most competitive counties and that is primarily due to its mixed urban-rural ratio. Al Gore received 50. 3% of the county vote to 46. 4% for George W. Bush in 2000, Cambria returned to the Democratic Presidential column in 2008, with Barack Obama receiving 49. 4% of the vote to 48. 7% for John McCain. In 2011 the GOP won a majority on the county commissioners board, in 2016, Donald Trump carried the county with 66. 5% of the vote to Hillary Clintons 29. 7%, winning the county by 36. 8%. This broke the record for margin of victory in the county of 35. 4% set by Lyndon Johnson in 1964. Mark Wissinger, Republican William Smith, Democrat Thomas C, chernisky, Chairman, Democrat District Attorney, Kelly Callihan, Democrat Clerk of Courts, Susan Kuhar, Democrat Controller, Ed Cernic Jr. See, Education in Pennsylvania. Prince Gallitzin State Park is named for Demetrius Gallitzin, a Russian nobleman turned Catholic priest who was instrumental in the settlement of Cambria County, laurel Ridge State Park surrounds a 70-mile hiking trail that begins in Cambria County and ends at Ohiopyle State Park in Fayette County

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Arthur W. Murray
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Arthur Warren Kit Murray was a United States test pilot. He flew test flights on the Bell X-1 and the Bell X-5 aircraft, arthur Warren Murray was born to Charles C. Chester and Elsie Murray in the small town of Cresson nestled in the Allegheny Mountains of Pennsylvania on December 26,1918. With World War II already underway in Europe, he joined the United States Army in 1939, Kit volunteered for pilot training the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor, and by 1943 was flying the P-40 as a fighter pilot in Africa. His unit worked its way across the continent from Casablanca to Tunisia, escorting B-25, B-26 and his unit was proud to never have lost a bomber to enemy fighters while under their escort. After a year tour in Africa, Kit returned to the United States as a P-47 instructor at Bradley Field near Hartford and he was then assigned as a maintenance flight test pilot and sent to Maintenance Engineering School at Chanute Air Force Base. After completion of school his commander found out about the Flight Test School at Wright Field. Here was where Kit got his big break as he found out this school was not for functional test flights. He kept his mouth shut and stuck with the program, until then, pilots were based at the Wright Field Test Center and assigned TDY as needed to Muroc. Chuck Yeager was making trips out there from the Test Center while he was flying the Bell X-1 on the first supersonic test flights. In early tests Kit was able to fly some of America’s earliest jet aircraft including the Bell XP-59 and he also flew the P-51, P-82, F-84, B-25, B-43, B-45 and many other fighter and bomber aircraft. Kit flight tested the X-1A and X-1B, the X-4, the X-5, in the X-1A, Kit set altitude records of over 90,000 feet and was considered at the time,1954, America’s first space pilot. He was the first to see the curvature of the earth, the X-1A was powered by four rocket motors using liquid oxygen and alcohol as fuel. Looking rather exotic even in photos today, the X-1 used nitrogen tanks to pressurize many of the systems including the tanks, cockpit. However, the controls were completely conventional with strictly mechanical linkage. The X-1A was launched from the belly of a B-29 and later a B-50, on his first couple of high altitude flights, Kit said his plane would snap into a spin when the motors burned out while approaching his peak altitude. He finally figured that the motors were installed very slightly offset which. When the engines shut off, the condition, which was keeping the airplane from yawing. After two flights involving supersonic spin recovery, Kit was quick to neutralize the controls immediately upon motor shutdown in later flights and he had taped a string in front of the windshield to determine his rudder trim input

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Chris Columbus (filmmaker)
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Chris Joseph Columbus is an American filmmaker. Home Alone received a British Comedy Award for Best Comedy Film, Columbus received an Academy Award nomination for producing The Help. Columbus was born in Spangler, Pennsylvania and raised in Champion, Ohio, the son of Mary Irene, a worker, and Alex Michael Columbus. Columbus is of Italian and Czech descent, Columbus worked as a screenwriter with Steven Spielbergs Amblin Entertainment, working on Gremlins, The Goonies and Young Sherlock Holmes. He wrote the first episodes of the animated series Galaxy High and later made his debut with the teen comedy Adventures in Babysitting. His directorial work includes Home Alone, Only the Lonely, Home Alone 2, Lost in New York, the character types preferred by Columbus are the everyday American men, women, and children who struggle to uphold family traditions against a changing, sometimes intimidating society. In 1993, he said, I can understand the validity of showing people the ugliness of the world, if your film isnt going to do that, I just dont think its worth making. Columbus created the House of Secrets book series with Ned Vizzini and co-founded a new studio called ZAG Animation Studios with Saban Capital Group. In 1982, Columbus married Monica Devereux, with whom he has four children, Eleanor, Violet, Brendan, Columbus lives in San Franciscos Pacific Heights. Columbus and his wife listed their Pacific Heights home for sale in September 2013 for $12. 995M and his children attend or previously attended Saint Ignatius College Preparatory. He donated money to the school for a new building, many of Columbus family members —including his children, his wife, his mother, his father-in-law, and his cousin Robert Ayres— have appeared in cameo roles in his films. Particularly, his own daughter, Eleanor, portrayed the Hogwarts student Susan Bones in the first two Harry Potter films

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Malcolm Cowley
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Malcolm Cowley was an American novelist, poet, literary critic, and journalist. Born August 28,1898, in the town of Belsano in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, Cowley grew up in the East Liberty neighborhood of Pittsburgh, where his father William was a homeopathic doctor. He attended Shakespeare Street elementary school and graduated from Peabody High Schools first graduating class in 1915 where his boyhood friend Kenneth Burke was also a student, in 1920 he earned a B. A. from Harvard University. He interrupted his studies to join the American Field Service in France during World War I. From the Western Front he reported on the war for The Pittsburgh Gazette, upon returning to the USA, Cowley married artist Peggy Baird, they were divorced in 1931. His second wife was Muriel Maurer, together they had one son, Robert William Cowley, who is an editor and military historian. He died of a heart attack March 27,1989, scott Fitzgerald, John Dos Passos, Ezra Pound, E. E. Cummings, Gerald and Sara Murphy, Edmund Wilson, Erskine Caldwell, Harry Crosby, Caresse Crosby and others. He is usually regarded as representative of Americas Lost Generation, from his two decades of struggling, he later became a well-known chronicler of the expatriate generation. Perhaps the most famous work he wrote was his book of poetry, Blue Juniata. His most autobiographical was Exiles Return, published in 1934, the second book is one of the first published in the United States about the Lost Generation, and was reissued in a less radical edition with new material, like his Fitzgerald revivals, in 1951. American literary historian Van Wyck Brooks described it as a literary record of the most dramatic period in American literary history. Coming under the influence of Theodore Dreiser, Cowley became increasingly involved in radical politics, in 1932 Cowley joined Mary Heaton Vorse, Edmund Wilson and Waldo Frank as union-sponsored observers of the miners strikes in Kentucky. Their lives were threatened by the owners and Frank was badly beaten up. The following year Cowley published Exiles Return, the book was largely ignored and sold only 800 copies in the first twelve months. The following year he published an autobiography, The Dream of Golden Mountains, in 1935 Cowley and other left-wing writers established the League of American Writers. However, he resigned in 1940 because he felt the organization was under the control of the American Communist Party, in 1941 President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed Archibald MacLeish as head of the Office of Facts and Figures. MacLeish recruited Cowley as his deputy and this decision soon resulted in anti-communist journalists such as Whittaker Chambers and Westbrook Pegler writing articles pointing out Cowleys left-wing past. One member of Congress, Martin Dies of Texas, accused Cowley of having connections to 72 communist or communist-front organizations, MacLeish came under pressure from J. Edgar Hoover, head of the FBI, to fire Cowley